December 20, 2011

still Christmas ...

 Well  the Abc Christmas  evening  came and went all too quickly and was, I feel,  a great success .... so now I am preparing the new year, already:

 We begin with another GAMES NIGHT ! Test your vocab, general knowledge, culture and numbers and lots meet new recruits to the cellar ... Sign up as usual at : p.abcbooks@gmail.com. Please find a moment between now and Thursday 22nd , then from the 28th dec to 4th jan to drop in if possible to register and pay. Knowing numbers in advance is important !
 so it's the  Thursday 12th january 7.30 to 9.30pm . "  Glass of wine and Nibbles" served while playing ... then  why not go and have a meal and continue in English after with new found friends ...

 The next " theme " evening is  FREE  and open to all .. and is in fact in  FRENCH .. so as you can  imagine it will not be held in the walls of Abc ( HEAVEN FORBID) !! .. The title is " Il ya gentleman et gentleman" and is  in fact in conjunction with the  Bookshop  POLIS, rue Perciere ; Patrick Gree a specialist in Crime fiction will be giving a  short conference  on Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin at 6.30pm ...  The famous French and English detectives confronting each other ?
 I,  Pascale Greene (  you don't have to be  adetective to notice the similarity in the names !!) will simply be  giving a reading IN ENGLISH of extracts and Commenting the French translations.. and encouraging you  to read in THE ORIGINAL VERSION, in Bilingual editions, the 56 short stories which are better of course  or  simplified texts. Which are a good way to start.

 The evening will end of course end with  a glass of FRENCH wine .. ok you do SOME things better than us  !..

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